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AI reveals new details about a famous Latin inscription

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Illustrated snippets of ancient Roman life, featuring segmented scenes including a red-roofed temple, a Roman warship, an arched city gate with docked boats, soldiers marching, people farming and a marketplace with statues and smoke. The base is inscribed with Latin text.

Researchers used a new AI system to analyze the language in a famous Roman-era inscription, the Res Gestae Divi Augusti.

Robbe Wulgaert

By Tom Metcalfe

An artificial intelligence system has revealed fresh details about one of the most famous Latin inscriptions: the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, once inscribed on two bronze pillars in Rome and in copies throughout the Roman Empire.